Zodiac

Zodiac - 2007

Genre: Crime Drama
Thriller, Non-fiction, Mystery - SERIAL KILLER

Main Actors: - Robert Downey Jnr.
- Mark Ruffalo

- Jake Gyllenhall

1) Murder

2) Investigation begins

3) Another murder - recognised pattern

4) Slowly track down killer

5) We're not certain who the zodiac is

Director : David Fincher

(Se7en, Fight Club, Gone girl, The Girl with the dragon tattoo, The Game, Panic Room - All thrillers)

Zodiac plays around with the conventions of thriller:
Unrestricted
Audience knows more than the characters --> Zodiac never caught, we know about killings
(Big picture - Long shots, wide angle, high angle)'

Its a big city - thats why cannot find killer.

Audience no longer inside the car with victims - helpless

Audience purely observing what is about to happen in a distant.

Restricted
The audience learns information/plot the same time as the characters --> Details of case and the number of suspects (Detail - close ups)
Characters bombarded with details and the audience learns the evidence the same time as the characters.


Graysmith   

• Detatched from other people
• Motivated
• Curious
• Brave

He is outside alone and looking inside into where everyone else is - shows isolation/separated from other characters/different.

Toschi

• Idealistic
• Hardworking
• Devoted
• Stylish

Contrast - Graysmith disorganised whereas Toschi is neat (background and setting) , Plays with the idea of their personality and ideaology (Toschi strongly believes in the law, follow orders)